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In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Bathsheba Demuth, an associate professor at Brown University, about the history of the Bering Strait, which separates Alaska and northeastern Russia. Demuth discusses the ecosystems, peoples, and economic systems in the region and how interactions between Indigenous peoples and colonial settlers affected the local environment and social and political life around the Bering Strait.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cFloating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait\u201d by Bathsheba Demuth; https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393635164\n\n\u201cWolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear\u201d by Erica Berry; https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250821621/wolfish